Barza

"Barza" is a French Congolese word with Swahili roots that means "the place where people in a village meet under a tree to talk and sort out questions concerning the community." The interactive Barza website includes news, blogs, comments, discussion forums, and content sharing features. Users can upload their own radio and farming related content, specifically radio scripts, events, photos, video, and audio. Resources are organised by topic, such as climate change, food processing and storage, water and sanitation, market information, broadcasting techniques, gender, malaria, HIV/AIDs, etc. There is also a French website for Barza.

On Barza, broadcasters have their own profile page and there is a Barza Café discussions page where users can participate in various discussions. Broadcasters and others can join Barza by registering on the site. Farm Radio International encourages new members to go to the Welcome forums to make an introduction and join an icebreaker activity with other Barza community members. On Barza, radio stations can have their own page where they can highlight the work they do.

Agriculture, Food Security, Livelihoods, Health

FRI, a Canadian registered charity with regional offices in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Mali, uses radio combined with other ICTs to serve small-scale farmers. They have been using radio to help African smallholder farmers for three decades. They send information about low-cost ways to improve food security to over 400 radio stations across 39 countries. FRI packages - in French and English - cover topics from improving soil fertility to coping with climate change. Local broadcasters use this information and translate it into over 100 African languages. RFI offers an electronic news service to over 1,500 African subscribers and provides training to broadcasters to improve their skills in serving smallholders.

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